The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-12-17
euRpETre ON INSOMNIA.
A Few Standard Methods Of Counting Ma.
lures Sweet Restorcr.

A Few Standard Methods Of Counting Ma
lures Sweet Restorcr.
What plcases me, when / am tor
mented with sleeplessness, is little
health book Of my own. in which have
jotted down a few-a very few-of the
"infallible remedies" for sleeplessness
which have been tried in thousands
or perhaps it was millions-of cases.
most of which were in the subscriber
own immediate family, or at the
farthest circle of intimate friends, and
had never once failed to effect a per-
manent, and it is needless to say, in
slant cure. ALI Of these cases collect
lively and each one by itself individu-
ally were and was exactly lik my own
in cause, duration and operation. The
simplicity of the combined remedy APP
peals at once to human confidence.
Eat nothing within three hours be-
fore retiring.
Eat light but substantial luncheon
Just before going to bed. Nature abb
hors vacuum. (This is one OF the
prescriptions like.)
Read light literature before going to
bed.
Read nothing after supper. Walk a
mile in the open air just before bed
time.
Go to your room an hour before re-
firing and read until bedtime. Give
up smoking altogether
II you are a smoker, cigar just be-
fure retiring will soothe and tranquil
ize your nerves until you can't keep
awake.
Don't think about sleeping; you
scare away slumber by wooing the
drowsy god.
Resolutely resolve as you lie down
that you will go to sleep, and sleep
will come naturally.
Take warm bath. and go from the
tub into bed.
Take cold sponge bath, jump into
bed, and you'll be asleep before your
head touches the pillow.
Walk slowly about your room half
an hour.
Lie on your right side. with your
cheek on your hand.
Lie on your left side. with your head
resting on your arm.
Count up to one thousand. q tried
this inhuman bit of idiocy one night
! came very near falling asleep two or
three times, but was startled wide
awake by suddenly becoming con-
scious that had lost my count, and
had to begin over again. This care
kept me awake one whole night, when
was so sleepy could scarcely hold
my eyes open. The friend who gave
me this prescription is not living now.
She was woman, and could not as
| gentleman, offer her violence. So !
dosed box of marshmellows with
death to rats, and sent them to her)
Drink milk. (This. according to my
experience. is the best prescription in
the lot. 1t will make you sleep better
than all the bromides going. which
are snares and decisions. But milk
diet not only makes You sleep at night,
but you want to sleep all the next day.
1t makes you intolerably stupid all
the time. 1t is very pleasant, half
awake feeling, If you have nothing else
to do but to enjoy falling asleep Mt any
time and in all manner of places. like
Colville in the best told story Of these
times Indian Summer" but II you
have any work to do it is 'embarrass.
ing).
So, what is sleepless man who
wants to sleep. going to dop If he
eats light luncheon, smokes a mild
cigar, reads Bonner all hour, walks ,
mile in the air. comes back and walks
another mile about his room. takes 9
sponge bath. cold. followed by a tut
bath, warm. drinks pint of milk
jumps into bed. and lies on both sides
with his head on one arm and ont
hand and counts thousand. it will
be time to get up anyhow. and he car
have few nervous fits during tn,
day.
1t is a fact, however, that even mer
who think they suffer from sleeplcss
ness do not lie awake half so long 81
they imagine they do. When a MAJ
says to me: Il did not close my eve
once all night" know he lies. No
Intentionally. of course. Hs thinks he
was awake all night; the probability
is that he did not get to sleep unit
two hours after his regular time, an,
it seemed an age to him. Really,
isn't often that man lies awake tn
whole night through. l am not
physician, and can not speak by tn
book, but believe that men fib abou
their sleeplcss nights more than an,
J other i'll to which our weak humani
ty is heir. Now. take your own case
you remember the last time you la,
awake all night. don't youP Yes,
see you do. Well, don't you remem
Der that same night you heard tn
clock strike two, and then tho mex
time you heard it, it struck seven
Yesp l SEQ you do. Well. that's on
of the mysteries about insomnia tina
is difficult to explain. Robert j. Bur
dette, in Des MONIES Register.